Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) announced the arrival of the first buses carrying migrants under the agency's new “Safe Emerging Mobility Corridors” program, which provides migrants with free transportation, including meals and security, from the Mexico/Guatemala border to U.S. ports of entry, where they will be admitted through the Biden-Harris CBP One app.
The first bus arrived early Wednesday in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, just across from McAllen, Texas, carrying migrants from several Latin American countries.
The Mexican government allowed the migrants to cross under a program announced after a series of meetings between the Biden-Harris administration and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. A bilateral migration conference in August expanded the geographical reach within Mexico and gave migrants access to the CBP-One smartphone app to process their entry into the U.S. and to apply for asylum and receive assured release to the United States.
This new responsive transportation program will allow Mexican authorities to better manage the timing of the flow of migrants moving into the country by scheduling appointments and free transportation services for migrants to enter the U.S. under the CBP One program. The Biden/Harris CBP One asylum process would release up to 1,450 migrants into the U.S. each day. Migrants would not be required to pass a credible fear interview, typically the first hurdle to successfully file an asylum claim. Congress has never authorized this immigration program.
The buses will depart from two southern Mexican cities, Villahermosa, Tabasco, and Tapachula, Chiapas, and arrive at one of eight designated U.S. land ports of entry that allow the entry of more than 500,000 migrants each year via the CBP-One smartphone app.
Mexico's National Migration Agency (INM) government is the first to implement the new program. Spanish Announcement The bill, announced in early September, is called the “Safe Emerging Mobility Corridors.” Prior to the geographic expansion of services through the CBP-One smartphone app and the implementation of the coordinated free bus program in Mexico, reservations were only available in central and northern Mexico. This new coordinated reservation and bus program will allow the Biden-Harris Administration to regulate the flow of migrants through Mexico.
The CBP One smartphone application is separate from recently restarted programs for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela that allow up to 1,000 migrants to enter the U.S. daily. The two Biden-Harris programs allow more than 800,000 migrants to enter the U.S. each year to claim asylum.
Randy Clark Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as Chief of the Law Enforcement Operations Division, where he led operations for nine Border Patrol stations in the Del Rio Sector, Texas. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
